Archives for
April 2008

There’s been some noise brewing for the past half-day or so in the blog world about a service called Shyftr. (The name is short for "Share Your Feeds Together.") It’s founding company, Upshot Interactive, based in New York City, claims it utilizes RS...

Back in November of last year, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) pressured Demonoid, a popular BitTorrent tracker site, into shutting down. Now, just as suddenly as they disappeared, they've returned with all of their data seemingly ...

New York’s gubernatorial debacles have left a bad taste in many state residents’ mouths. (No pun intended.) Spitzer’s dirty dealings outside Albany won’t be off the minds of the citizenry for a good while longer. Resentment lingers. Well, it seems th...

The Masters, the most prestigious of golf tournaments, is currently happening in Augusta, GA, and while the game itself may be old, coverage has gotten new-age. The first Masters tournament was held in 1934, but the coverage of the games is stepped u...

For most bloggers, a hosted blogging platform like Blogger is a good choice, but there is no doubt that their selection of pre-built templates is lacking to say the least. While there are tons of templates out there for the platform, a lot of them ar...

Last week we told you about a milestone met by Google’s Grants division in its efforts to provide non-profit organizations with free publicity by way its advertising network. This week the company continued to impress upon the world its character as ...

The Web OS. Sounds like a nice idea, right? Sure, everything out in the cloud, secured with industrial-strength redundancy. Why not? Sign me up. But is it really any good when applied in the present day in real-world scenarios? Not so much. Why? All ...

The team behind the popular KateModern series has been contracted by MySpace to launch a new series named, I Love Chieftown. Set in east London, the new drama will follow the story of an aspiring filmmaker who is herself following a band trying to ma...

Tired of watching Yahoo sit on its laurels, refusing Microsoft’s stubborn $44.6 billion advance? (The offer is now valued at $41.6 following a drop in MSFT’s market price.) Fed up with Microsoft’s exhaustive threats? Want to see some real action? You...

Are you a resident of the San Francisco? If not, don’t read any further. Flickr’s got a treat for those of the Bay Area and surrounding boroughs that’s going to leave those foreign to the Golden Gate mighty starved. Literally so. If Matthew Rothenber...

With the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) having their annual conference next week in Las Vegas, Nevada, television networks are getting ready to discuss what their plans on for the future of Internet video, and what they hope to accomplish...

After having spent a sum of about 100 hours being seduced by a guy about 15 years her junior, Sheryl Sandberg, a former vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, has been taking the past several weeks familiarizing herself with ...

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